You know what I WILL be playing the shit out? Metal Gear Rising, motherfucker. That game is too fucking good. Oh yeah, it's made by Platinum Games, a team full of people who made DMC before and got the fuck out of dodge before Capcom started repeatedly shooting itself in its foot.

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I thought the new DMC looked cool... I was planning on getting DMC and MGR once their prices dropped. Anyone else thinks it kinda looks ridiculous how Raiden stands with his legs so far apart? And I've seen that spine-ripping animation so many times. I can't believe I'm actually getting bored of seeing spines ripped out. Game better be good, that's all I'm saying eh.

I had a lot of fun with it as well. I'll be going back to Platinum that one of these days.

Right now I kind of want to drop everything and just get Battletoads on the VC (it's on the VC right?)

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Don't think it's on the VC. Your local Gamestop should have it or if you live near Vegas, I heard the famous Gold and Silver Pawn Shop from the History Channel's hit show Pawn Stars has some copies also. I suggest phoning one of those two places to try to get a copy.

Shadow the Hedgehog did a lot of things that Sonic games shouldn't do, but it was actually a pretty fun game otherwise. I enjoyed the platforming, the gunplay, and the freedom it gives you in certain levels. People mostly hated it because it's Shadow, he has guns, the story is crap, and the DAMNED overuse of curse words just to sound mature.

It still wasn't anywhere near the quality of the Adventure games though.

The Sonic Adventure games are awful, the controls are terrible, I can't believe I loved them as much as I did. To be honest, the series isn't without good games these days, it's just that Sega has completely lost touch with what made Sonic so good in the Genesis era. There's such a focus on speed that they completely neglect platforming, tons of branching paths, and with S3&K, the sense of discovery when you find large rings.

The old Sonics are great because you can take your time and platform carefully, or challenge yourself and try blast through levels quickly.

Animation in Beauty and the Beast is awful. If you look closely you'll notice different art styles of Belle, which gives the movie an odd feeling.

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I've always noticed that too. Particularly in the very beginning when she's singing and going through the town, there's lots of warping in her face. There's a lot of complicated angles and she's swinging towards the camera a lot, so I can see how it'd be really difficult to animate, but the changes in her face are really noticeable. They based her off of dancers, so when you look at individual frames you can really see how exaggerated her movements are.

I have a thing for the time period Beauty and The Beast is set in, plus I loved the colors as weird as that sounds. Of all the Disney princesses, I felt like I was most like Belle, so Beauty and the Beast is up there as one of my favorite Disney movies.

I think I'm like you ghos2, my favorites are always changing with me. When I was younger for example, my fav was the Lion King (I've watched it now 28 times) and Aladdin. In terms of animation, I'd say my favorites are Snow White, Cinderella and Fantasia.

It's amazing that the evil Queen in Snow White wasn't rotoscoped at all; I think she's ended up being one of the most realistically animated characters in any Disney film. This scene in particular when she runs down the stairs is incredible, her cape especially - starting at about 58 seconds in (the best version I could find is in Russian).

I just discovered Hayao Miyazaki about four years ago when i first watched Ponyo. Even though it's not the best one he's done, it captured my attention in a different way than Disney movies ever had. If I were to compare, when I think Miyazaki, I think "beautiful" and with Disney, I think "fun".

If you think the changes they made to Dante are bad (and you probably haven't seen everything they changed yet), wait until you see what they did to the rest of the characters.

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Most of what I know is stuff you have shown and told me. I've heard Vergil took a massive downgrade in badass, which brings supreme sadness to my heart. That and Mundus is some human business tycoon or something. And all combat takes place in some alternate dimension or something? That seems... odd. Feel free to correct anything wrong as I don't know all the details and most of that was told to me months ago, or at least it feels like it was.

On the Sonic discussion... I don't have much to say other than everyone seems to think the older games are the golden age of the series. My choice when I was younger was either Mario or Sonic and I went with Mario, which eventually branched into Nintendo in general.

Tickets went on sale at 10am. Usually, I get on my computer 15-30 minutes before they go on sale, "camp out" and struggle through the site crashes until I get the tickets. In this situation, I was put in a "virtual waiting room" and every 30 seconds I would be given the chance to be randomly selected to proceed to the ticket selection. Waited about a hour before seeing that the thing was sold out, never got out of the waiting room.

Tickets went on sale at 10am. Usually, I get on my computer 15-30 minutes before they go on sale, "camp out" and struggle through the site crashes until I get the tickets. In this situation, I was put in a "virtual waiting room" and every 30 seconds I would be given the chance to be randomly selected to proceed to the ticket selection. Waited about a hour before seeing that the thing was sold out, never got out of the waiting room.

Sonic's cool, he kills badniks and doesn't afraid of anything. Also I began my venture into the Mega Man series yesterday by starting with the original. After 5 hours of having my arse handed to me I finally got to the end. Feels good maaaan.

Most of what I know is stuff you have shown and told me. I've heard Vergil took a massive downgrade in badass, which brings supreme sadness to my heart. That and Mundus is some human business tycoon or something. And all combat takes place in some alternate dimension or something? That seems... odd. Feel free to correct anything wrong as I don't know all the details and most of that was told to me months ago, or at least it feels like it was.

On the Sonic discussion... I don't have much to say other than everyone seems to think the older games are the golden age of the series. My choice when I was younger was either Mario or Sonic and I went with Mario, which eventually branched into Nintendo in general.

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Mundus went from omnipotent demon to a banker who "controls the world through debt." Vergil's just... fuck...

Dallas told me about the mod application whatever going on. If you're applying and I know you well enough (meaning more than just a few discussions between us) then feel free to list me as a reference.

We have to play Dino Beatdown after the update. That game's getting a MASSIVE overhaul, including updated graphics and a game mode where it's 5 human players vs 1 human controlled T-Rex and an army of dinosaurs.

If you think the changes they made to Dante are bad (and you probably haven't seen everything they changed yet), wait until you see what they did to the rest of the characters.

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On the Sonic discussion... I don't have much to say other than everyone seems to think the older games are the golden age of the series. My choice when I was younger was either Mario or Sonic and I went with Mario, which eventually branched into Nintendo in general.

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Thats a shame because Sonic 3 & Knuckles is probably the best platformer of all time.

When I was kid, Sega was like an alternate universe I could never get to. I wanted to play Sonic and all those other games when some of my friends would talk about it and occasionally bring it over, but I was fine with my SNES.

I was lucky in that my older brother already had the SNES, so I got to experience both systems growing up. As important as I may have said the early Sonic games were to my childhood, Super Mario World holds just as many fond memories.

My childhood dentist office had a Sega Genesis in an awesome sonic themed arcade cabinet in their waiting room. They had Sonic 2, Ecco the Dolphin and some Tasmanian Devil game. It was a pretty good way to get the kids willing to go to the dentist. It's actually still the office I go to and last year I stayed around almost an hour after my appointment playing Sonic 2 (there were no kids that came in during that time, as I would have let them play if one happened to come in)